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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.What alot of people dont realize is how much it hurt us to lose our first because we can tender restricted players (Barber is well worth a 1st and 3rd considering our position and his fit but now we cant).
Because if you look around the league you dont need a 1st round RB to win. Norwood is good enough and another free agent addition of mid tier runner will be fine.
See Sammy Morris, Ryan Grant, Earnest graham, Fargas, Kolby Smith, I could go on.
Its a waste of a pick. They need a QB but I think Dline and Oline as well.
It's a shame the Chargers wasted such a prime pick on LaDainian Tomlinson, and the Vikings on Adrian Peterson. With better drafting, they'd probably be playoff teams.
You don't need a first-round anything to win. The Falcons do need to improve everywhere, but they also need something to get excited about after the Vick/Petrino/3-13 season disasters.
Hypothetical question, if LT was available for the Patriots at pick 6 in 2001 would they take him or Seymour?
http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft?season=2001
Knowing what we know now, it is a tough call. LT has been the most dominant RB and averages over 2000 combined yards and 14-18 TDs per season.
Seymour has been an anchor on 3 championship teams.
Tough call..
Given what we know now? I think we take LT and rely on Jarvis Green as a starter.
That being said, we won 3 Super Bowls with Seymour and Antowain Smith/Corey Dillon. How many more were we going to win with Tomlinson/not Seymour? Probably none, although "more" is more likely than "fewer".
Hey, I'm a big believer in the theory that 90% of Running Backs are interchangeable behind a quality offensive line.
Hypothetical question, if LT was available for the Patriots at pick 6 in 2001 would they take him or Seymour?
http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft?season=2001
Knowing what we know now, it is a tough call. LT has been the most dominant RB and averages over 2000 combined yards and 14-18 TDs per season.
Seymour has been an anchor on 3 championship teams.
Tough call..
We'll see how the draft breaks down. Right now Gholston and Malcolm Jenkins look like they'll be going around there. Of course, #6 could be a good trade down spot as the #1 QB, as of now, is looking to be in the latter part of the top ten and QB are often traded up for.
it's not really close, the top DE's are worth much more than the top RB's. NFL GM's agree by paying them a lot more.
LT2 is great, but has been playing in a great offense. go look at Erik Turners #'s, they are awesome
I dont think the Pats will be trading down if they find talent... and that includes if they pick at #2. I'm actually a little pissed that Cinci lost. wtf?
Tell me if this rings true: We never seem to draft a LB in Round 1, but we've never had the 5th pick before. Holding such a high pick, BB finds a LB that he KNOWS will be good in the pros, and for the first time, we draft LB.
At least it gives us more to talk about, maybe 8-10 players are in the mix to be taken in the top 5. With pick #2 there really were 1 or 2 potential picks.
I still say trade back and it should be easier from #5 than #2.
Whoever said 6-8 was right on the money, props to 'carolinatony'. I think we are at 8 as of 12/23. From a cap perspective, according to last years salaries this is still a little high, Jamaal Anderson DE 5 year $31.00 for a $6.20 average. Lynch is signed for 6 years for only $3M.
I still vote 'trade back' but at least the cap hit is not totally dehibilitating at #8.
2007 draft contracts
8 Atlanta Jamaal Anderson DE 5 $31.00 $6.20
9 Miami Ted Ginn Jr. WR 5 Unknown Unknown $14M guarantees
10 Houston Amobi Okoye DT 6 $15.40 $2.57
11 San Francisco Patrick Willis ILB 5 $16.65 $3.33
12 Buffalo Marshawn Lynch RB 6 $18.90 $3.15